κάρφος, εος, τό,
any small dry body, especially
dry stalk, as of the
dry sticks of cinnamon, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; of
rice-straw, [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]: generally, in
plural,
dry twigs, chips, straws, bits of wool, such as birds make their nests of, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]: in
singular,
chip of wood, [
Refs 5th c.BC+];
toothpick, [
Refs 4th c.AD+]. 'not stirring an inch', [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀπὸ τῆς κύλικος κάρφος τῷ μικρῷ δακτύλῳ ἀφαιρετεῖν Ion Hist.1.
II) = Latin
festuca, [
Refs 1st c.AD+]
III)
a small piece of wood on which the watchword was written, [
Refs 2nd c.BC+]
IV) in
plural,
ripe fruit, [
Refs 2nd c.BC+]
V) ={τῆλις}, [
Refs 1st c.AD+] in A.[same place], Plb.[same place]: perhaps
cognate with Engl.
sharp.)